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Article: Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere. (book reviews)
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- September 22, 1995
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Family and the Law posits what John P. Zomchick calls the "juridical subject" of the eighteenth-century novel. For Zomchick, the juridical subject is formed by "a system of legal beliefs, principles, and practices, which attain frequent and clear visibility both in the society and the narratives of eighteenth-century England" (xi), and in this study he attempts to examine the working of that system in six novels: Roxana, Clarissa, Roderick Random, Amelia, The Vicar of Wakefield, and Caleb Williams. These are not surprising choices for a study of this kind, and the conclusions that Zomchick reaches, although not obvious, would be somewhat less predictable if he had included ...
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